What's the difference between chaos and disharmony?

Chaos


Definition:

  • (n.) An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.
  • (n.) The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.
  • (n.) Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (2) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
  • (4) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (5) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
  • (6) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
  • (7) Speaking before details about Thompson's evidence to the committee had been made public, Hodge said she had seen evidence of "total chaos" at an organisation more concerned with its public image than licence fee payers' money.
  • (8) One hundred days from Rio, Britain’s national cycling team has been thrown into chaos following the sudden resignation of its head, technical director Shane Sutton , as allegations of bullying and discrimination against women and Paralympians accumulated on Wednesday.
  • (9) The Public Accounts committee (PAC) said on Thursday that the "chaos" surrounding the failure of G4S to provide enough staff for the Olympics had undermined confidence in Games organisers.
  • (10) Internal chaos is highly productive for a creative person.
  • (11) In a day of chaos for the Lib Dems, Cable strongly denied being involved in attempts by his friend, Lord Oakeshott, to get rid of Clegg, insisting he was strongly behind his leader.
  • (12) After a night of chaos and bloodshed, Yıldırım said the government would consider reintroducing the death penalty, which would allow it to execute those behind the coup, the country’s fifth in 60 years.
  • (13) The paramedic said the system was in chaos.” When Charles was finally in the ambulance, the family was warned there could be a long wait at hospital.
  • (14) If you are a London commuter dreading tube strike chaos this evening and tomorrow there is an alternative to fighting your way on to overcrowded buses or a long walk.
  • (15) To explain these contentions, the history, strengths, and limits of reductionist thinking are discussed, and aspects of chaos science, such as the butterfly effect and strange attractors, are described.
  • (16) Now boos ring round the stadium as the resultant free kick causes some chaos in the box and Seattle are penalized for Zach Scott holding.
  • (17) In perhaps the most telling exchange, May implored Juncker, “Let us make Brexit a success.” The commission president responded that while he didn’t want chaos, “Brexit cannot be a success.” No 10 has said it does not recognise the account.
  • (18) An American citizen abandoned in a Yemeni jail amid the country’s spiralling chaos is heard screaming for his life in a newly released telephone call.
  • (19) The rope suddenly breaks in Götterdämmerung, and that's the end of their role – they can no longer foresee the future because the structured and predictable world of the gods is about to be replaced by the chaos of human existence.
  • (20) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.

Disharmony


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of harmony; discord; incongruity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The retrospective analysis revealed the following signs of carcinoma: missing haustral folds, disharmony of interhaustral fold patterns; radiolucent filling defects; local contractions; residue-like masses and decrease of volume.
  • (2) Consideration should be given to the intensity of the occlusal disharmony, the level of anxiety, and the patient's adaptive response.
  • (3) Half (52.7%) suffered from significant mental disorders and marital disharmony.
  • (4) There is racial disharmony in our society,” Miller writes .
  • (5) Illustrations show the anatomical variant, the "length-disharmony" and its relationship to important deformities like scoliosis and funnel chest.
  • (6) In delusion the are: loss of tradition, incapability of dialogue, disharmony with the environment, loss of trust and independence.
  • (7) Regret is more likely if the sterilisation is performed (i) post-termination or in the puerperium, (ii) when there is marital disharmony and (iii) for medical rather than social reasons.
  • (8) Determining if head pain is related to occlusal disharmony can be a challenge.
  • (9) The goal of the profession is preventing occlusal deterioration or disharmony between the anterior and posterior occlusal determinants and restore compromised occlusions when necessary.
  • (10) Frequently facial disharmonies may be corrected with relatively simple operative procedures or with cosmetics.
  • (11) Inertia surrenders space to economic and political stagnation, which, in turn, makes space for international conflict and social disharmony.
  • (12) With recent advances of oral surgery, restoration of malocclusion and facial disharmony can be achieved by approaches other than the traditional procedure of condylectomy.
  • (13) But the condyle paths differed strikingly in those patients who had temporo-mandibular complaints or neuromuscular disharmonies.
  • (14) TMJ dysfunction had no relation to specific malocclusion but some kinds of occlusal disharmony were easy to occur in specific malocclusion and TMJ dysfunction was induced by those etiological factors.
  • (15) In this paper the literature on the intergenerational transmission of family disharmony is reviewed from an environmental perspective.
  • (16) The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship between TMJ dysfunction and occlusal disharmony (eccentric occlusal contacts and functional shift of the mandible) in orthodontic patients.
  • (17) Fifty-seven families were in the disharmonious marriage group and 62 were in the harmonious marriage group.
  • (18) It is sure that this is the result of disharmony of overstrain (bending force or compression force) of groups of muscles on the one hand and skeletal carrying capacity, i. e. one skeletal segment on the other hand.
  • (19) Results showed that marital disharmony, in the form of mistrustfullness, lack of mutual friends and time together, emotional instability (in both partners), but not sexual relations, were predominant factors in incest perpetrators' profiles.
  • (20) Few differences could be found in the mental or physical health of the two groups of parents, but marital breakdown or severe marital disharmony was found in nine of the mongol families and in none of the controls.

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